TY - JOUR
T1 - Prevalence of childhood trauma in a community sample of substance- abusing women
AU - Medrano, Martha A.
AU - Zule, William A.
AU - Hatch, John
AU - Desmond, David P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This substudy was added to a parent project, the Center for Behavioral Studies in AIDS and Substance Abuse, funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) using 1-year Hogg Foundation funding. The center grant was awarded to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on August 6, 1994, for a 5-year period ending June 30, 1999; the principal investigator is David P. Desmond, M.S.W. Within the parent project, Dr. Medrano directed the substudy, ‘‘Effects of Childhood Trauma on AIDS Risk Among Women Drug Users.’’ A childhood trauma questionnaire was conducted with 181 women injection drug users in San Antonio, Texas, over a 1-year period.
Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of positive trauma histories in a community sample of intravenous drag using (IVDU) women for five subsets of childhood trauma (emotional abuse or neglect, physical abuse or neglect, and sexual abuse) and to compare demographic variables between the abused versus nonabused groups. Of the 181 women who completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), 109 (60.2%) were sexually abused, 100 (55.2%) were physically abused, 83 (45.9%) were emotionally abused, 151 (83.4%) were emotionally neglected, and 108 (59.7%) were physically neglected. There were no statistically significant findings for age, ethnicity, and educational level. Those subjects that were physically neglected were more likely not to be in a current relationship compared to those subjects that were not abused (p = .036). The findings suggest that the prevalence of all five childhood traumas was higher than what has been reported in the general population, and that physical neglect of individuals may predict lack of current significant relationships.
AB - The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of positive trauma histories in a community sample of intravenous drag using (IVDU) women for five subsets of childhood trauma (emotional abuse or neglect, physical abuse or neglect, and sexual abuse) and to compare demographic variables between the abused versus nonabused groups. Of the 181 women who completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), 109 (60.2%) were sexually abused, 100 (55.2%) were physically abused, 83 (45.9%) were emotionally abused, 151 (83.4%) were emotionally neglected, and 108 (59.7%) were physically neglected. There were no statistically significant findings for age, ethnicity, and educational level. Those subjects that were physically neglected were more likely not to be in a current relationship compared to those subjects that were not abused (p = .036). The findings suggest that the prevalence of all five childhood traumas was higher than what has been reported in the general population, and that physical neglect of individuals may predict lack of current significant relationships.
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U2 - 10.1081/ADA-100101872
DO - 10.1081/ADA-100101872
M3 - Article
C2 - 10473008
AN - SCOPUS:0032875999
VL - 25
SP - 449
EP - 462
JO - American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
JF - American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
SN - 0095-2990
IS - 3
ER -